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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Three Female Suicide Bombers Blow Themselves up in Deadly Nigeria Attacks |
| 2015-07-19 |
| [ALMANAR.LB] Three girls staged suicide kabooms in the Nigerian city of Damaturu on Friday, killing at least 13 people as residents prepared for the Eid festival at the end of holy month of Ramadan, police said. The attacks, in a northeastern area hard hit by the Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... terrorist group, came just days before Nigeria's new President Muhammadu Buhari travels to Washington for talks with US counterpart Barack Obama Jedi mind meld... The bombings came on the day the country's new army chief was due to visit the city to meet soldiers battling Boko Haram. Buhari is expected to use Monday's meeting with Obama to push for US help to tackle the terrorist violence, which has surged since he took office in May, claiming more than 700 lives. In the Nigerian attacks, residents said twin kabooms near a prayer ground in Damaturu killed two people, before a third blast moments later near a mosque that left another 11 dead. Markus Danladi, Yobe state police commissioner, confirmed 13 people were killed. "The attacks were carried out by three underage girls. Fifteen people were also injured in the attacks." |
| Posted by:Fred |